Subject: Re: su and /bin/sh
To: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@netbsd-pt.org>
From: None <sigsegv@rambler.ru>
List: current-users
Date: 03/23/2005 17:40:55
Rui Paulo wrote:
> On 2005-03-23, sigsegv@rambler.ru <sigsegv@rambler.ru> wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, I noticed this a week ago I think, on sparc64. I thought it was 
>>only affecting sparc64 port as they're changing to wscons or something, 
>>but looks like the bug is somewhere else. I see the same behaviour via ssh:
>>
>>vmstat -c 10 1
>>
>>before vmstat finished outputting 10 lines, hit CTRL-C and it will not 
>>terminate the process
> 
> 
> On i386, this behaviour is only visible when doing executing 'su -'.
> My sh doesn't have the regression tests fixes.
> 
> 
Are you saying it's /bin/sh misbehaving? If it is, then I suppose 
running /bin/ksh would be a workaround.